The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has earmarked N35 million in its 2025 budget proposal following a cyber attack that compromised its website on December 18, 2024. DAILY POST recalls that the website of the agency was hacked shortly after it published its crime experience and security perception survey. The bureau claimed that Nigerians paid […]

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu State, Mr Sunday Ikechukwu Damian has drawn the attention of Governor Peter Mbah to an alleged attempt by a member of the House of Representatives member, representing Awgu/Oji-River/Aninri Federal Constituency, Hon Anayo Onwuegbu to remove all the elected ward […]

A drunk man bit off part of his wife’s ear in Abor Mbaise, Imo State. One Lolo Nneka Obani, who disclosed this in a Facebook post on Christmas Day, shared a photo of her mother consoling the woman after the incident. “One of my drunkard cousins in the village just bit off his wife’s ear […]

The crisis is brewing between Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa and the widow of his predecessor, Betty Akeredolu, over plans by the governor to organise a memorial lecture in honour of the deceased governor. Former Governor Rotimi Akeredolu passed on December 28 last year, following a protracted illness. Aiyedatiwa, his deputy, was immediately sworn in […]

South Korea’s main opposition party has said that it would initiate a bill to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo. The opposition Democratic Party had threatened to impeach Han if he fails to immediately appoint three justices to fill the vacancies at the Constitutional Court. Parliament voted in favour of three nominees on Thursday, but they […]

The EFCC is investigating the alleged diversion of N1.3 trillion state funds, SaharaReporters has learnt. Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested the Accountant General of Delta State, Mrs. Joy Enwa, amid the commission’s ongoing investigation of the state’s former governor, Ifeanyi Okowa. The EFCC is investigating the alleged diversion of […]

A commercial bus lost control and rammed into a Christmas procession in Gombe on Christmas Day, injuring 22 people, police have confirmed. The Tumfure community celebrants were en route to the Government House and Gombe Emir’s Palace for homage when the accident occurred. Buhari Abdullahi, the spokesperson for Gombe State police, stated that the injured […]

Funmilayo Ogunseyi, the mother of Naomi Silekunola, a former wife of the Ooni of Ife, has urged President Bola Tinubu and other Nigerians to weigh in on her daughter’s legal issues. Silekunola is one of three people brought before the Iyaganku Magistrate Court in Ibadan in connection with a terrible funfair stampede that killed 35 […]

Former Minister of Women Affairs, Barr. Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye said she has not jettisoned the cases she was working on despite being sacked by President Bola Tinubu. She disclosed this during an interview on Channels TV. Kennedy-Ohanenye was dropped as minister alongside four others when President Tinubu rejigged his cabinet in October. “I was sacked, but […]

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 20-year-old man, Akeem Sumonu, for allegedly raping and impregnating a 16-year-old girl in the Olodo Community of Odeda Local Government Area, Ogun State. PUNCH Metro gathered from the Ogun State Police Command on Wednesday that the suspect was arrested on Tuesday by operatives stationed at the community’s security […]